Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...

incident thereto; they giving good and sufficient security, under the penalty of double the
sum so received, for the faithful appropriation thereof for the purposes aforesaid.
Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the commissioners and managers...